Offshore staff
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – SPS has helped reinstate deck areas on-board MODEC’s FPSOBaobab Ivoirien MV10 while the vessel was on station, 25 km (16 mi) offshore Côte d’Ivoire.
The contractor applied a reduced heat input method to reinstate steel in various areas on decks B, C, D, the top of the wheel house, and the upper deck.
It used structural adhesives to fix perimeter bars to the deck and welded new top plates, 6-8 mm thick, to the bars to form air-tight cavities into which a 25-mm elastomer core was injected.
Work on the three-month campaign finished in late February 2018. The vessel remained in-service throughout the project and according to SPS, operations were not impacted.
SPS licensee, ASOM installed the steelwork while an SPS engineer supervised the injection of the elastomer core.
“We proposed…an SPS low heat solution for the FPSOMV10 for a safe, rapid repair,” said Reagan Lim, project manager, ASOM.
SPS operations manager Mohammad Farihim added that the solution adopted involved minimal heat input into the existing deck: “The associated risks were accessed and the use of SPS eliminated below deck work. This significantly reduced downtime and costs.”
04/20/2018
